More recent comment by Dave Winer on the issue of RSS overwhelming the internet if the so-called standard of checking no more than once an hour is not honoured.
I wonder…if there is no general acceptance of his late in the day plea for using these apps no more than once an hour, isn’t the question now something like “have Dave and friends really inadvertently released the slowest acting but most devastating virus the web has ever seen”? I know my aggregator of choice, Abilon, churns every ten minutes [Edit.: “bad, bad Big Al”]. Who is he once he has unleashed the monster to say this:
…the vast majority being good network citizens and accessing it only once an hour…
Wouldn’t it be better to order the recall and fix the dang thang before this goes any further? Can’t we stop the syndication insanity?!?!